IBM Storwize V7000 - 60 Second Elevator Pitch
1. You have 10 seconds to get their attention.
 Did you know IBM has a new powerful storage system that combines hardware and software components to provide a
single point of control for storage resources to help support improved storage efficiency through virtualization,
consolidation, and tiering for high application availability and greater resource utilization.
 The goal is to provide easy-to-use yet powerful management of storage resources in your IT infrastructure that is quick,
efficient, and cost effective.
2. Use factoids.
 IBM Storwize V7000 provides a single point-of-control to manage storage resources. Provides automated migration of
highly accessed data to high performing SSD’s to support tiered storage with less administrative needs
 Provides Thin Provisioning for business applications that need to grow dynamically, but only consume space they are
actually using. Provides IBM Systems Director for integrated IBM Server and Storage Management.
3. What will the customer remember from your call? / Next Step
 IBM offers industry leading storage (IBM Storwize V7000), a storage solution should provide ease-of-use management
with powerful capabilities for your IT infrastructure, be able to scale not only to meet the current demand for storage
capacity and performance, but also to accommodate future growth. Look for high availability and ease with which
capacity can be added.
 When would be a good time for us to get together and discuss evaluating your IT infrastructure to determine where best
to implement this solution so that you can start saving money today?
IBM Customer Presentation
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